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International Conference on Parallel Processing

VAPP 1990, CONPAR 1990: CONPAR 90 — VAPP IV pp 756–765Cite as

The distributed monitor system of TOPSYS

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It is generally not trivial to gain knowledge about the programming and the behavior of multiprocessors. To improve your knowledge, you have to obtain runtime information which is then used for programming, configuration or evaluation of multiprocessors. The necessary information is collected by a monitor and processed by tools like debuggers, visualizers, performance measurement systems and load balancers. This paper describes two types of monitors with the same functionality but different monitoring techniques. One of them is a software monitor. The other one is a hardware based monitoring system with little intrusion on the processing elements. Other features are correlation of events on different nodes and the existence of global and local clocks.

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  1. Department of Computer Science TU Munich, Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation, Arcisstr.21, 8000, München 2, FRG

    Thomas Bemmerl & Robert Lindhof

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Bemmerl, T., Lindhof, R., Treml, T. (1990). The distributed monitor system of TOPSYS. In: Burkhart, H. (eds) CONPAR 90 — VAPP IV. VAPP CONPAR 1990 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53065-7_151

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